Bedstead.



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B. R. BLAISDELL.

BEDSTEAD.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BYRON R. BLAISDELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660.208, dated October23, 1900.

Application filed February 1, 1900. Serial No. 3,558. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, BYRON R. BLAISDELL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of lllinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads, of which thefollowing is a specification, and which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

Thisinvention relates to bedsteads in which the side rails are clampedto the uprights or pillars of the end frames, engaging the same bybrackets in hooked form and being held thereto by straining mechanismuniting the two rails.

rlhe invention consists in the vstructure hereinafter fully describedand which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure1 is a detail plan section of the bedstead. Fig. 2 is a detail sectionon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of acornerof the bedstead; and Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line 4 4 of Fig.3, the side rail being inverted.

The uprights orpillars of an end frame of a bedstead are shown at 10 and11, and one of the usual cross-rails for rigidly uniting such pillars isshown at 9. The side rails 12 14 are preferably of metal and eachprovided with an instanding liange 13 15. Preferably ordinary commercialrolled angle-bars are used for the side rails, as shown in the drawings.Each rail is provided at its ends with a bracket 16, the stem of whichis rigidly fixed to the rail, the bracket being in hooked form andadapted to partially encircle the pillar. The two side rails are clampedto the pillars by means of a tie-rod, comprising the two sections 17 and18, united by means of the turnbnckle 19. Each of the sections of therod is bent laterally 'at its outer end to form the hooks 2O and 21,adapted to engage suitable apertures in the lianges 13 15, so that whenthe brackets 16 are applied to the pillars 10 and 11 and thestraining-rod engaged with the rails the brackets may be clamped tightlyto the pillars by means of the turnbuckle 19. The brackets 16 are ofsuch length transversely as'to the rail as to provide a sufficientbearing against the pillar to hold the parts rigid, when strain isapplied, by means ofthe turnbuckle. In practice the length of thesebrackets is about four inches.

Preferably a beading, as 22 and 23, is formed upon each pillar, so as toindicate the proper point of application of the bracket to the pillar,and the lower bead 23 may, if desired, be provided with a shortupstanding horn 24 to facilitate the assembling of the parts, this hornbeing sufficient to prevent the side rail from falling until vthestrainingrod can be engaged with it. The side rails as thus equippedwith brackets are interchangeable and when transposed` are necessarilyoverturned, so that the lateral flanges 13 and 15 are at the bottom ofthe vertical member 'of the rail, as indicated in Fig. 4.. This featureof the device the better adapts the side rails to the use of differentforms of mattresses.

I do not broadly claim in this application a bedstead having its side.rails clamped to the pillars by a straining device connecting the tworails, as such structure is thus claimed in Letters Patent No. 643,589,granted to me February 13, 1900, for improvements in bedsteads.

What I now claim is- 1. In a bedstead, the combination with rigid endframes having pillars, of side rails having hook-form brackets engagingthe pillars, anextensible tie-'rod having hooks for engaging the siderails, and a turnbuckle for extendingand contracting the rod.

2. In a bedstead, in combination, rigid end frames having pillars, siderails having instanding flanges and being provided at their ends withbrackets in hook form for engaging the pillars, an extensible tie-rodfor clamping the hooks of the pillars and having at its ends hooks forengaging the side rails, and a turnbuckle for extendingand contractingthe rod.

BYRON R. BLAISDELL.

